In 2009, the then managing director of the investment bank, Shea Morenz, planned to utilise the intelligence from the insider network "to start up a captive strategic investment fund".

"What StratCap will do is use our Stratfor's intelligence and analysis to trade in a range of geopolitical instruments, particularly government bonds, currencies and the like," reads an email by Stratfor's CEO George Friedman.

Assange said the hedge fund is "completely out of control and totally absurd".

"Stratfor are people playing James Bond in a mostly ineffective, hopeless manner," he said. The 41-year-old talked about a "cowboy culture" that allowed Stratfor to boom in the US, without any government's control.

Stefania Maurizi, of the Italian weekly l'Espresso claimed that Strafor "has information on events before they happen". In reading these emails, you see that these organisation have information about drone attacks five months before they happened," she said.